Restoring objects deleted accidentally in Active Directory (Windows Server 2003)

Deleted objects in Active Directory are not really deleted, they are just "tombstoned" for a period of time that can either be 60/180 days, depending on your DCs' operating system, or any other value, if it was ever changed by the system administrator.

Restoring objects with ADRestore.net

Guy Teverovsky, a fellow MVP from Israel, has written a cool tool that allows you to easily restore deleted AD objects. The tool is provided as freeware and has no kind of support, but from what I've seen, it works great. Some of the tools features include:

• Browsing the tombstones
• Domain Controller targeting
• Can be used with alternative credentials (convenient if you do not logon to your desktop as Domain Admin, which you should never do anyway)
• User/Computer/OU/Container reanimation
• Preview of tombstone attributes

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TouchFreeze - Diables your touchpad while typing

Annoyed when you are typing a document and accidentally the palm of your hand brushes the touchpad, changing the position of the cursor in your document or accidentally clicking on an option. TouchFreeze is simple utility for Windows NT/2000/XP that solves this problem. It automatically disables touchpad while you are typing text. Like syndaemon on x-windows.

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Unable to burn CD or DVD on Dell laptops E6400 E4300 or XPS models

Issue: Unable to burn CD or DVD on Dell laptops E6400 E4300 or XPS models but its reading

Solution: Download the Intel Matrix Storage Driver and Application from Dell website according to your model and install it. After that your CD/DVD burner will get the facilty of burning. The new burners are coming on SATA ports and require Intel Matrix Storage Driver support to burn.

Visio files not opening in Internet Explorer 8 or IE8

Solution: Uninstall the update "Cumulative Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows 'Your Version of Windows Here' (KB973525)" and it will work perfectly.

Mail Merge Tool for Microsoft Word 2007 and Outlook 2007

Mail Merge From Outlook 2007

Mail Merge From Microsoft Word 2007 With Outlook as Source

How to Convert Delimited Text Files to Excel Spreadsheets

How to Convert Delimited Text Files to Excel Spreadsheets

Clear the Auto-Complete Email Address Cache in Outlook

Clear the Auto-Complete Email Address Cache in Outlook

Outlook 2003 has an automatic completion for any email address that you try to type into the To or CC fields. This feature does not pull from the contacts or address book, because you may have tried to email somebody that wasn’t in your contact list, and it will still add that to the auto complete list.

The problem comes in when you put in a bad address, and then every time you go to type in the email address, the incorrect one appears in the auto complete list.

To fix this problem, there are two ways around this. The easiest way is this:

• Start typing in the address that shows up incorrectly.
• Hit the Down arrow key to select the auto completed address.
• Hit the Delete key to delete the auto complete address

The other way is by opening the profile folder and deleting the .nk2 file.

• Open up windows explorer, and paste the following into the address bar:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Outlook

• Delete the Outlook.NK2 file that you find in this folder.

UNetbootin - Boot from and ISO Image

UNetbootin - Boot from and ISO Image

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.

For more details, visit http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

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Converter - Zilla JPG To PDF Converter

Zilla JPG To PDF Converter is a FREE windows application for quickly converting multiple image files into a single pdf document. With Zilla JPG To PDF Converter users can create pdf files from JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIF, PNG and PSD formats.

For more details, visit http://www.pdfzilla.com/zilla_jpg_to_pdf_converter.html

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Copy Microsoft Outlook Calendar Items From One Folder to Another

Copy Outlook Calendar Items From One Folder to Another

CPU Speed Test

Accurate Speed Testing Ahead!

If you've ever wondered exactly how fast your CPU is running, this great little application will tell you.

Simply click the 'Test CPU Speed' button and see CPU Speed Professional's cpu clock speed anaylsis.

For more details, visit http://www.cpuspeedpro.com/

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USB Flash Security

It is locked only by unplugging USB memorys!
Data in a USB memory is protected by a password / useful security tool

For more details, visit http://kashu-sd.co.jp/en/products/usbenter.html

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Reflet - Photo Editing - simply and quickly an animation simulating waves effects and

Reflet makes it possible to generate simply and quickly an animation simulating waves effects and
lake reflection. It is very practical to animate logos, to decorate your web pages or quite simply to
have fun. It can be used of course for images with water but you can widen the choice for the
monuments, portraits or to create text animations.

For more details, visit http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/freeware/reflet-en.htm

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Photo Editing - Digital Image tool quickly resize, crop etc.

This user friendly tool was created to batch process images quickly, applying flexible resizing methods, rotation, cropping, scaling and conversion.

For more details, visit http://www.digitalimagetool.com/

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Photobie - Free Photo editing sosftware like Photoshop

Photobie is image editing software that combines features amateurs can use with advanced tools professionals will appreciate. Photobie is free for personal use with no Pro upgrade to pay for -- all features are free. Photobie is also a community of people ...

For more details, visit http://www.photobie.com/

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Oxelon Media Converter for audio and video formats

The program allows to convert video/audio files into the following formats:

Video Formats: 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DV, DVD MPEG2, FFM, FLV, GIF, MOV, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2 PS, MPEG2 TS, NUT, PSP, RAW YUV, RM, SVCD MPEG2, SWF, VCD MPEG1, VOB, YUV4MPEG, M1V, M2V, M4V.

Audio Formats: AC3, AAC, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MMF, MP2, MP3, OGG, VOC, WAV.

For more details, visit http://www.oxelon.com/media_converter.html

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SkyDrive Explorer for Microsoft skydrive

SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive™ service (read more...) using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer.

Moreover you don't need to install and configure any additional programs or ActiveX components. SkyDrive Explorer will organize the interaction with the online storage itself.

For more details, visit http://skydriveexplorer.com/index.php

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Online OCR extracts text from scanned documents for free

Have you ever received a PDF file in an email that contained information you need in text form, but the PDF doesn't let you select the text? Sometimes this is due to access restrictions on the document, but more often it's because the person creating the PDF did so by simply scanning the document. This creates an image of the document, but does not embed the text information.

To extract the text, you need to use optical character recognition (OCR) software. Most scanners come with OCR software, but if you don't have ready access to it, you might consider using the Online OCR service.

Online OCR lets you upload a PDF file and it returns plain text that can then be copied directly into the word processing tool of your choice.

Disadvantage: Obviously there are security concerns with uploading and storing copies of your documents on a 3rd party's site, but if that's not a concern to you, Online OCR might be just the trick to solve your OCR needs.

For more details, visit http://www.onlineocr.net/